Capture of Saragossa

The Capture of Saragossa (early September 1811) was a siege of the Peninsular War that occurred when an Allied army of 615 troops under General William Carr Beresford laid siege to the French-occupied city of Zaragoza in northern Spain, facing an army of 885 French troops under Audrie Neville. The Allied forces managed to take the city by storm, assaulting the weak garrison of militia and securing Saragossa for the Spanish. After the city's capture, Mariano Renovales and his guerrilla band joined forces with the British.